Description Share Post Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs Poems by James Carter, illustrated by Neal Layton (Otter-Barry Books) ‘If it jiggles just a little/ or its home is in the mud/ or it wiggles down its middle…// oh, indeed- it’s a bug! However, what is a bug? James Carter explains how they’re really insects. What’s more, they’re ‘found all over the world- in forests, deserts, gardens, farms, homes…‘ Thereafter, we explore through poetry AND information. It means that we learn how insects’ shape and function. After all, we’re exploring with Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs After a grasshopper ‘fast hopper// zipping nipping/ past hopper’, we examine how different insects move. It seems this includes ‘flying, leaping, crawling, walking, even up walls and trees‘. Then we move through moths and butterflies and the wonder of the ‘Elephant Tear Moth‘. Thereafter, we encounter bees and wasps, ladybirds and ‘fireflies’- actually types of beetle, not birds or flies’. Then again, throughout this outstanding book, the poetry is perfect. We’ve a confident range of devices and forms, However every work is accessible, uncontrived, enticing, performable and audible. It seems the poet knows and loves his subject. We sense his fascination, thereafter. It means that we need to read these poems. Bookwagon suggests, additionally, that Neal Layton’s pictures are so bright, encouraging and appealing that we need to linger over the poems. Like The Big Book of Bugs, Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs is a title for home and school. This book is a keeper, one to linger over, share, recite, know and learn from. Bookwagon is delighted to welcome it aboard!
